THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 17 September 1901, Page 4

THE BOER WAR.

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Da Wet Refuges the Proclamation. *(:■>Lobtdou, September 15. Theron’a force of 80 moo boldly a'.taoked F.erdeloerg on Friday. 25 men of the West Yorkshire Ilogimont lepulscd the enemy with loss. De Wet refused Lord Kitchener’s proclam ition. Ho told Pastor Murray that a clergyman’s place was the pulpit. •- Sieyn discussed the proclamation, but remained, unconvinced by Murray’s arguments anjd insisted that iho Boor refugee women were brutally treated. the revenue of the Orange Bivor Colony • this year shows a surplus of £84,000 without including telegraph and railway returns, Broecksma is charged with treachery and treason. Documents seiz'd in his house showed that treasonable correfpondence had been proceeding for six months per medium at Broeoksma’s house between Lleyds, Kruger, Reitz, and the commandants in the field under letters addressed to American Consuls, the Hague and Johannesburg. Kruger’s letters showed that ho was forwarding to Leyds and Broecksma nows intended to influence the pro-Boer organs with the object of" prompting the action of Parliament.

The documents seized included a typewritten proclamation signed Louis Botha, announcing that the Boer fighting Generals had outlawed Kitchener and all British officers, and ordering'all Burghers to kill every armed soldier and policeman. Two of Reitz’s despatch riders ware captured on the Transvaal-Portuguese frontier, circulating cuttiogs from the Review of Reviews and other English pro-Boer organs. There is an impression in Canotown that only the propertied Boers will bo allowed to surrender.

The loyalists urge the cessation of leniency, stricter measures and vigorous warfare.

Fifteen Boors were captured at Thabanchs on the 12th after an engagement.